19.6.10

A woman in a hot air balloon realized she was lost. She lowered her altitude and spotted a man in a boat below. She shouted to him, "Excuse me, can you help me? I promised a friend I would meet him an hour ago, but I don't know where I am."

The man consulted his portable GPS and replied, "You're in a hot air balloon, approximately 30 feet above ground elevation of 2,346 feet above sea level. You are at 31 degrees, 14.97 minutes north latitude and 100 degrees, 49.09 minutes west longitude.

"She rolled her eyes and said, "You must be an Obama Democrat."

"I am," replied the man. "How did you know?"

"Well," answered the balloonist, "everything you told me is technically correct. But I have no idea what to do with your information, and I'm still lost. Frankly, you've not been much help to me."

The man smiled and responded, "You must be a Republican."

"I am," replied the balloonist. "How did you know?"

"Well," said the man, "you don't know where you are or where you are going. You've risen to where you are due to a large quantity of hot air. You made a promise you have no idea how to keep, and you expect me to solve your problem. You're in exactly the same position you were in before we met, but somehow, now it's my fault."

That's BEAUTIFUL and a great way to end the week and begin the weekend!

What is the expiration date for Reagan being a saint? If you are a good or bad president you don't get to run away from what you did ever. This economic disaster will always lay at the feet of george bush.

The democrats will continue to be known for their lack of guts and actions to get the job done.

In fact we democrats need to form a group to control and fund real democrat candidates and get rid of the Emanuel's , Clintons , blue dogs and centrists which are corporate own and are destroying our party..

Emanuel and his crew are running our party into the ground and we the democrats have no say in any d... thing they say or do..

Emanuel and Obama's Chicago's mob crime background is showing in their back room deals and BS..

.Emanuel stated................. Turn off MSNBC. Tune out Howard Dean and Keith Olbermann. The White House has its liberal wing in hand on health care, says White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel.

"There are no liberals left to get" in the Senate, Emanuel said in an interview, shrugging off some noise from the likes of Sen. Bernie Sanders (I., Vt.) that a few liberals might bolt over the compromises made with conservative Democrats.

I'm disappointed but not totally suprised by Obama. Sadly no prominent republican is any better and by in large, far worse. It's a capitalist system so it is no wonder the biggest capitalists run it. Big money picks the candidates. I think we should have Ron Paul run for the Republicans and Dennis Kucinich for the Democrats. Let the new parties form as they will.

As far as when it isn't Bushs' fault? I figure we rightfully are owed at least as long as it was Clintons' fault. About 6 years as I remember.

..that's been going around tech support circles for decades. In the original the guy on the ground is a front line help desk agent, the guy in the balloon the befuddled user of some hardware or software item -- usually some incarnation of Windoze. Sometimes it played on the slogan, "Where do you want to go today?"

That is not to imply that it isn't a very good joke indeed. And Kudos to BaScOmBe on the nice recycling job.

This Is BS... Remember when Pelosi could have done something about Bush and Cheney ,,, Pelosi said impeachment is OFF the table and the stupid voters still voted her back into office her next run..

Kucinich filed a bill against Cheney and Bush with over 35 items for impeachment and Pelosi stated on a show ,,, that if someone show her a reason to impeach Bush she would..

I believe that many democrats where involved with the Bush/Cheney corruption and this is why impeachment and any enforcement of crimes against Bush , Cheney , Rumsfeld , Rove and the other criminals were not investigated and prosecuted..

The more I see the behind the scene shaded actions of the Clintons the more I believe they are no different than Emanuel and the other Clinton group which Obama has taken as his advisors and other administration positions..

back to the tax percentages of the 70s will we ever be a prosperous nation again. Also, we need to get out of Iraq & Afganistan....then we'll be on the road to recovery.

Regardless of what Rethuglicans say, it takes money to run a country--education, infrastructure, safety--it's all supplied by The Commons...something the selfish piggy Rethuglicans want no part of. They just want to take their money and run..NOT run the country. It's true what they say: Rethuglicans are great at running campaigns, but lousy at running the country--unless they're running it into a ditch. They they're masters!

"Let us never tolerate outrageous conspiracy theories... malicious lies that attempt to shift the blame away from the terrorists, themselves, away from the guilty." - President George W. Bush at the United Nations - November 10, 2001

" I shudder " , Ditto that LL and right on Pelosi !It cracks me up , the country was handed all but totally destroyed to Obama , the Repugs have been obstructing , stirring up trouble and creating as much chaos as they possibly can from day one , Obama has only been in office a little more than a year and nitwits like Todd ask how long the Dems can keep blaming Bush ( and the Repugs ) for the state that the country is in ? Talk about a disingenuous and stupid question ! Amazing . I don't know which will take longer , to get this oil disaster under control and cleaned up as much as is possible or to recover from the Bush , Cheney , Repug disaster , the latter most likely !

But we are not connecting the dots. It is Conservatism which is to blame.Bush implemented a perfect Conservative Doctrine and it failed miserably. Conservatism is to blame for all the misery and destruction and unless we expose the real culprit, Conservatism will continue to destroy us. Just look around at the world today for all the proof you need.

Bush is gone but Conservatism is a very real threat to our Democracy and is still here.

Pelosi, you had the power to begin the impeachment process against Monkey-Boy. People were SCREAMING for it. But you did NOTHING but watch while him and Darth destroyed the country from within. Pelosi is as worthless as the Congress she presides over.

Too little, too late, Pelosi! The Bushco war criminals are STILL walking around free, enjoying the spoils of their hubris! Until and unless you greedy, dissembling pols push for the impeachment of all the war criminals, I won't have a lick of respect for you, and I will work hard to insure that you are NOT re-elected.

...displays the same fearless integrity that boldly proclaimed "Impeachment is off the table!", after the 2006 takeover by the Democrats, who swept the elections for the specific purpose of ending the illegal wars of occupation, restoring the Constitutional rights raped from us by the Bush Junta, pursuing criminal investigations of their main players, Dumbyah included, and doing something about the looming financial collapse. Instead, she and her colleagues continued business as usual and did nothing at all that the people put them in power to do. The 2008 elections brought us the identical betrayals, with the added kick in the face to the liberals & progressives who put them there, and the wholesale abandonment of everything the same long suffering people voted hopefully to enable, like universal health care, ending the same illegal meatgrinder wars, and investing those funds in the citizens, the environment, jobs, education, infrastructure.

But Nancy knows that standing up and saying "We blame Bush for...." is all that is needed to keep the sheeple in line, as the ruin of the nation accelerates, but the corporate-congressional-executive-judicial humpa-humpa continues unabated. We can't even "get the government's hands off our Medicare", which is on the chopping block of "deficit control", although "Defense/War funding" never is.

The newly elected democratic Obama president could not have the country involved in a criminal trial of bush while the country was in 2 wars, in dept, house mortgages crisis, bank crisis ,unemployed workers and on the verge of a big depression. I have Scream at my TV so many time that bush, cheney should be in jail because of the invasion of Iraq. I came back from EU before the invasion, and knew it was a joke as you do not put all your armies on the boarder and then say you go to the UN. Somewhere in the back of my mind is that when the son(s) in law defected, they said that all the weapons given from Reagan’s( Rumsfeld) were destroyed. It was long before w came in the presidency with the supreme court. Justice O Connor did cry that w did not win Florida, but made sure to give him the election. I remember” The Watergate” and it never got anywhere because Nixon resign. PBS had all both Houses committees about Nixon’s if and when he knew of it? He was not involve in the break up but did cover up and lost his job.

...and prosecuting war criminals for their countless crimes against humanity is not a matter of expediency or convenience. Either we actually believe in all of our chest-beating hype about "justice",the Constitution, the Geneva conventions, & all the treaties we've signed regarding genocide and torture, or we don't.

Since the draconian powers created by Bushco are still in full effect, since we're still launching drone wars & killing people "on suspicion" that they might be terrorists, since we're still running our secret prisons, renditioning & torturing people, and have proclaimed the right to interfere and murder in any country we want, it's pretty obvious we don't believe or embrace those noble virtues we invade innocent countries to impose. Either the law applies to everyone, or there is no law.

To refuse to pursue these criminals is to abandon everything the US stood for. Pelosi & all the rest are all complicit in this. And for allowing them to do it, so are we all.

i agree with pelosi. the republicans were blaming clinton for everything up til about 2 yrs. ago. bush and cheney took a shit in the white house and handed it over to obama. those that voted for bush don't want to hear the truth it's too painful.......thousands have been killed and billions has been spent.